Fans can now audit the ringside scoring of Cynthia J. Ross, Duane Ford, and Jerry Roth with the round-by-round CompuBox punch statistics of the WBO welterweight title fight between Timothy Bradley (29-0) and Manny Pacquiao (54-4-2) in Las Vegas. [ See stats ]
The root cause of the June 9 controversy can be traced to the scoring of rounds 5 and 7. In these rounds, the 33-year-old Filipino landed 49 of 142 total punches, representing a connect rate of 34.5 percent. By comparison, the 28-year-old Bradley landed 19 of 135 shots with a connect rate of 14 percent. [ HBO full video ] View slideshow: Punch Stats: Pacquiao vs Bradley Advertisement
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Inexplicably and defying logic, Cynthia J. Ross and Duane Ford gave rounds 5 and 7 to Bradley (10-9) while Jerry Roth gave round 7 to the American. Ross and Ford scored the entire bout 115-113 for Bradley while Roth had it 115-113 for Pacquiao. [ See scoring ]
Here are the punch stats for each round (these numbers are estimates):
Round by Round (total punches): Pacquiao (11 of 42) Bradley (10 of 78 landed / thrown) Pacquiao (18 of 37) Bradley (15 of 72) Pacquiao (21 of 50) Bradley (11 of 65) Pacquiao (35 of 81) Bradley (15 of 65) Pacquiao (22 of 65) Bradley (8 of 68) Pacquiao (24 of 58) Bradley (10 of 48) Pacquiao (27 of 77) Bradley (11 of 67) Pacquiao (15 of 59) Bradley (9 of 70) Pacquiao (25 of 94) Bradley (26 of 78) Pacquiao (14 of 54) Bradley (14 of 64) Pacquiao (21 of 66) Bradley (15 of 76) Pacquiao (20 of 68) Bradley (15 of 88)
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In rounds 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (a total of five rounds), Manny Pacquiao is shown to have dominated Tim Bradley. In these rounds, the Filipino landed 129 of 331 punches while Bradley connected on 55 of 313 shots. In terms of percentages, Pacquiao landed 134.5 percent more punches in rounds 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
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